In a message dated: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:13:04 EST
Joshua Baker-LePain said:

>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 2:07pm, pll+amanda AT permabit DOT com wrote
>
>> I'd prefer to use tar to perform backups, primarilly for portability 
>> of restores.  However, amanda is running as user 'backup' which 
>> doesn't seem to have read permissions in many places.
>
>Amanda calls tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper.  So when it runs 
>the backups, it can get everything.  If amcheck is complaining, it's 
>because selfcheck doesn't run setuid root.

Nope, amcheck runs just fine, but the dump report states that the
backup of that 'drive' FAILED.

I assumed that it was a permissions problem, but since runtar is suid 
(which I checked after you mentioned it) then that's not the issue.

I'll have to dig into the *.debug files more. Any ideas what could be 
the issue?

Thanks,

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Paul

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